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4. Do you think the film favors the Israeli or Palestinian side of the conflict in the Holy Land? Why or why not?

The Family Corner

You Don't Mess with the Zohan is rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout (including frequent references to genitalia and implied depictions of sexual activity), language (maybe half-a-dozen four-letter words) and nudity (a man's naked bottom is seen a few times). The film also has cartoonish violence, some of it rooted in parodies of Middle Eastern violence (an Israeli agent fights some Palestinian terrorists, etc.), some of it more broadly slapstick (a man stabs himself in the leg, etc.). Also, Zohan's friends and family joke that he is a "faygele"—a Yiddish word meaning "homosexual"—when they learn that he wants to be a hairdresser, and one scene involves a racist redneck suddenly finding himself surrounded by famous gay men.

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